cephalic

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Slide 60: Hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury Bondanelli Marta et al. • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is from an external mechanical insult on the cephalic area that can direct mechanical injury to pituitary gland, stalk or hypothalamus and can lead into temporary or permanent neurological dysfunction, resulting to impairment of cognitive, physical and psychosocial functions.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the head.
  2. adjective Located on, in, or near the head.

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  • Slide 60: Hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury Bondanelli Marta et al. • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is from an external mechanical insult on the cephalic area that can direct mechanical injury to pituitary gland, stalk or hypothalamus and can lead into temporary or permanent neurological dysfunction, resulting to impairment of cognitive, physical and psychosocial functions. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • They are known as cephalic, gastric, and intestinal. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The skeletal points are therefore the safest guides to the precise localities of the bloodvessels, and such points are always within the easy recognition of touch and sight Close behind the right sterno-clavicular articulation, but separated from it by the sternal insertions of the thin ribbon-like muscles named sterno-hyoid and thyroid, together with the cervical fascia, is situated the brachio-cephalic or innominate artery, A B, Plates 5 and 6, having at its outer side the internal jugular division of the brachio-cephalic vein, W K, Plate 5. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • There seems to be, therefore, a greater probability of effectually treating an aneurism of the left brachio-cephalic vessels by ligature than attaches to those of the right side; for if space between collateral branches, and also a lesser caliber of arterial trunk, be advantages, allowing the ligature to hold more firmly, then the vessels of the left side of the root of the neck manifest these advantages more frequently than those of the right, which spring from a common trunk. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • Subclavian artery S. End of internal jugular vein T. Bracheo-cephalic artery U U*. —  Surgical Anatomy
 

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  1. French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus, from Greek kephalikos, from kephalē, head; see ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French céphalique = Spanish cefálico = Portuguese cephalico = Italian cefalico, from Latin cephalicus, from Greek κεφαλικός, of or for the head, from κεφαλή, dial. κεβαλή, κεβλή, head, prob. not connected with L. caput, head, or Anglo-Saxon heáfod, English head, or, it appears, with Anglo-Saxon (poetical) hafela, hafala, heafola, the head, but perhaps connected with gable: see caput, head, gable.
 

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